Technology

Ironically the two are only half way competing with each other. There's two buckets of twitter peeps:

A) People who keep up with specific people, reducing day by day.

B) The for you page peeps. The vast majority of people I know on Twitter including myself are there for the algorithm feeding us memes and content. Specifically the 2016-2021 algorithm.

Considering mastodon doesn't have any form of FYP/For you it's really only competing for bucket A which in my experience has reduced by an incredible amount in the past few years and continues to reduce and makes it useless to a large majority of twitter users.

Unfortunately or fortunately twitters algorithm also sucks now so there's a pretty big market gap here.

I am there now and testing out the waters

people also left AOL once they realized tf'n browser works without a monthly sub. wrote WordPress after geocities sucked so bad. tech baby boomers? so 2k

It should be “User x-odus.”

I wonder if Elon takes a massive hit before coming up with these ideas

Get them onto kbin.social. we can always use some extra mates! 🦙

His master mind move will be revealed any moment now! The great plan unfolds in front of our eyes!

It's like watching a car crash in slow motion.

Damn, elon's really leaning into that edgelord dystopian faceless corporation aesthetic huh

I would assume the real surges would be in bluesky and threads. Out of the frying pan and into the other frying pan.

People don't really understand Mastodon and federation (nor do I blame them for that), but those details are now much, much less in your face than they were when Elon bought Twitter. Mastodon's reliability and usefulness has also improved a lot since Elon bought Twitter. Nothing else works quite like sending a few hundred thousand people your way to stress test your product (and some of them are even nice enough to give money, too!)

I honestly can't tell if it's just a collective expiration date for a culture of wealthy incompetence, or if someone's been manipulating powerful idiots, but it almost feels like there's a coordinated effort to stir an abandonment of corporate platforms.